Department Overview

Institutional Outsourcing, a division of SS&C Technologies, Inc., is an investment processing service group that provides back office accounting, performance and reporting support to Asset Management, Insurance, Wealth Management, Pension Funds and REIT clients. The UK Institutional Outsourcing team are searching for an Investment Operations Analyst to support their Wealth clients both domestically and internationally. 

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and management of issues related to investment and trade lifecycle managed in task management system.  
• Trade support – Matching, trade settlement and confirmation, SWIFT. CTM, Tradesuite (DTCC).
• Work in partnership with product teams to resolve issues as they occur and improve overall processes. 
• Daily and monthly reconciliation of investment portfolios with custodian banks.
• Update security and portfolio level class schemes and properties
• Daily monitoring and processing of all corporate actions
• Perform daily and monthly calculation, reconciliation
• Verify and maintain security static and dynamic data
• Verify and maintain portfolio static and dynamic data
• Trade capture and issue resolution.
• Address ad hoc inquiries from the client/custodian banks including wealth related topics, trade support and performance analysis such as providing explanations of performance fluctuations and anomalies.
• Identify inefficiencies in the current production processes and make recommendations on how to improve them
• Maintain internal client support logs
• Documentation of processes
• Other duties as assigned

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Previous investment operations experience within Middle Office or Back Office within the Wealth Management, Asset Management Industry, Outsourcing Industry.
• Experience working in a time sensitive investment operations environment. 
• Previous experience with investment performance measurement preferred. 
• Previous experience with Microsoft SQL preferred.
• Previous experience with task management tool preferred. 
• Previous trade support and experience in SSI's and SWIFT, DTCC CTM & Tradesuite
• Strong knowledge of a range of asset classes, such as Equity, Fixed Income, Collectives and Derivatives
• Investment life cycle knowledge
• Experience of performance measurement and analysis tasks
• Proven ability to meet strict periodic deliverables
• Strong communication skills 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. 
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong team player and work ethic
• Previous experience using Sylvan and Pages is advantageous. 
• Finance related degree preferred